Method of manufacturing artificial tails from fur.



No. 810,159. PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

S. LEWIN & A. BLUMENTHAL.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL TAILS FROM FUR. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21,1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THAL, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL TAILS FROM FUR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed June 21,1905. Serial No. 266,868-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SIMON LnwiN, manufacturer, residing at No. 21 Maassenstrasse, in Schoneberg, near Berlin, and AUGUST BLUMENTHAL, merchant, residing at No. 48 Stralauerstrasse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, subjects of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, have in vented a certain new and useful Method of Manufacturing Artificial Tails from Fur, of which the following is a specification.

The artificial fur tails as manufactured up to now consist of small cut strips of fur twist ed together by means of a cord. These artificial tails are generally hard and stifi, and they do not possess the underwool peculiar to the finer or more costly furs. Therefore, also, the appearance, softness, and thickness of the tails in question are wanting.

The object of our improved method is to do away with the before-mentioned drawbacks and to afford the possibility of manufacturing artificial tails from furs of low value in such a manner that the artificial tails manufactured according to this method possess practically the same softness, as well as the same appearance, as is obtained when more costly furs are employed.

In order to make our invention more clear, we refer to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 shows a piece of a strip of fur. Flg. 2 shows the strip clamped in between cheeks. Fig. 3 shows the same parts, the hide or skin proper, (1, Figs. 1 and 2, being, however, removed from the hair proper, b. Fig. 4 shows again the same parts, but the upper ends of hairs proper being provided wlth a coatmg of gum-arabic e; and Fig. 5 shows the thus finished fur removed from the cheeks c d, Figs. 2 to 4.

In carrying our improved method into practice we first cut the furs or hides or skins into small strips, Fig. 1, and then place the same into a suitable clamping device 0 d, Fig. 2, in such a manner that after the device has been closed the hairs b are situated between the clamping-cheeks, whereas the leather or skin proper, a, is located outside the same. The skin or hide is then cut ofi the hairs, so that those portions of the latter that originally were in immediate connection with the hide or skin are exposed to view, Fig. 3. Dissolved gum-arabic or another cementing medium a, Fig. 4, is now spread upon these projection portions, the object being to firmly unite the same and turn the whole of the hair into a kind of feather. As soon as the gum has become dry and the feather has thus been formed the latter is removed from the clamping device, Fig. 5, and all the feathers produced in this way are wound in known manner around a cord or the like, thus forming a very soft tail With very many hairs, the latter being more dense than before because of the feathers being wound around a cord, as already explained.

Instead of employing in the manufacture of a certain kind of tails furs of one and the same kind or quality we may employ two kinds or qualities of furs, preferably two different furs, and particularly two such sorts, wherein one is woolly, whereas the other is not. These two kinds of fur are arranged alternately, there being always a woolly strip located between thehon-woolly strips, so that the hairs of the two kinds of fur get, so to say intermingled with each other. The softness of the tail manufactured by means of such alternately-arranged strips is practically the same as in the mode of execution aforedescribed. The woolly hairs form a kind of filling medium for the non-woolly hairs and may be regarded in the artificial tails as a substitute for the underwool existing in natural ones. Moreover, by employing the two kinds of fur in the way stated the places of fastening of the strips are more nicely covered, because the hairs of the woolly fur are not only more dense, but help the non-woolly hairs to get again erected after having been depressed.

Having now described our invention, what We desire to secure by a patent of the United States is- 1. The method of manufacturing artificial tails from fur consisting in removing the hide or skin from the hairs, connecting the latter with each other by a cementing medium so as to turn them into feathers and winding the thus produced feathers around a cord so as thereby to obtain the artificial tail desired, substantially as described.

2. The method of manufacturing artificial tails from fur consisting in removing the hide or skin from the hairs of two kinds of fur, connecting the hairs of each kind separately by In witness whereof we have hereunto set means of a cementing medium, so as to turn our hands in presence of two Witnesses. them'irlgto lipathers and winding the thus pro- SIMON LEWIN duced eat ers alternatel around a cord, in

such a manner that a fea ilaher of one kind is AUGUST BLUMENTHAL' located between two feathers of the other Witnesses:

kind, substantially and for the purpose as de- HENRY HAsPER,

scribed. WOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

